Places jasperlaurence Wants to Go

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

An annual celebration of the region's successful elk reintroduction program.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.